He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart, " a comparison that left me blinking two days later.

He's got a chloroform-soaked rag in one hand, and before Judy realizes what's happening, the dude is all over her like fat on cheese.

I make time every day to think.

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.

There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.

I've always wondered how in the hell we conservatives became denoted by red. That's a commie color! It is! The liberals have always been red!

The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.